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A Social Survey for Social Causes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr , Robert F. That in any time, but especially bad economic times, we need our nonprofit industry working to help ailing parts of our society? The three of us - Geoff Livingston, Qui Diaz, and Beth Kanter - are working on a special project, dubbed “Philanthropy 2.0? The Philanthropy 2.0

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Net Neutrality for Networked Nonprofits: Guest Post by Vince Stehle

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Net Neutrality protest at Google HQ - GoogleRally 45 by Steve Rhodes, on Flickr. This post and the more detailed piece on the Chronicle of Philanthropy will help you get up to speed on the issue and why it is important for nonprofits to get behind. After you read this post, take some action. The battle is lopsided.

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The Internet Gets Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Mburpee. But the truth is that many of the basic building blocks cited above – IP, HTML, URLs, EINs that enable today’s information exchanges – are frequently set, revised, and administered in a top-down fashion, by government or industry consortia.

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

The idea was to embed the functions of existing social sites like Meetup , Flickr , and del.icio.us. You had to say something on the blog, or post a photo on Flickr, or organize a Meetup. Net Tuesdays became a series of national and international face-to-face meetings connecting industry and nonprofit techies. What Is Web 2.0?

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Social Media for Social Good Video Roundup from #BBCon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Geoff Livingston. Blackbaud just finished hosting a pretty large conference for the non-profit industry. Blackbaud just finished hosting a pretty large conference for the non-profit industry. She leads social innovation, philanthropy, and causes at Twitter and Blogs at Claire.us.com. Meet Claire.

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What are the most effective ways Nonprofits/Foundations can use Twitter #hashtags?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. If, however, there was a standard #hashtag for philanthropy/non-profit art like #philart (stands for philanthropy art) or #npart (stands for non-profit art), then I think we would see everyone in this industry getting a lot more out of Twitter (e.g.

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Where in the World Is the NTEN Staff?

NTEN

flickr: Beach650 Most days, we're hiding from the rain in our Portland, OR office. October 25-27 in Baltimore, MD : The Convio Summit brings together Convio clients, partners, and industry experts. It will also feature a keynote address from NTEN member Stacy Palmer , editor of The Chronicle of Philanthropy. Are you going?

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